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US re-examines Afghan attack that killed civilians (AP)
AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has "new information" about an American attack that Afghanistan says killed 90 civilians and it is sending a senior military officer to the country to review its initial investigation that concluded no more than seven civilians died.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:07:41 GMT

 Killer Ike blasts Bahamas, aims at Cuba (AP)
Hurricane Ike blows through the trees just after daybreak on the island of Providenciales, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Ike roared across the low-lying Turks and Caicos island chain before dawn Sunday as people in the British territory sought refuge in emergency shelters or in their homes. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Ike roared across low-lying islands Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying homes, sweeping away boats and bringing more rain to waterlogged communities in Haiti, where at least 48 people died in the floods.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:11:50 GMT

 Hong Kong votes in legislative elections (AP)
Staff deliver the various party's promotional leaflet of the Legislative Council election to passersby in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hong Kong residents voted Sunday in legislative elections that threatened to set back the opposition camp and its push for greater democratic freedoms in the Chinese-ruled territory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Hong Kong voters turned out in thinner numbers Sunday for legislative elections that threatened to set back the pro-democracy opposition and its push for greater political freedoms in the Chinese-ruled territory.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:50:15 GMT

 Ike's floods add insult to Haiti's misery, kill 10 (AP)
Residents leave the area in the back of a pick-up truck after heavy rains in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters Sunday for the second time in a week as squalls from Hurricane Ike added insult to their misery, inundating homes and collapsing a bridge on the last open land route for aid to the desperate city.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:59:33 GMT

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Pats' Brady injures knee in win over KC (AP)
Tom Brady limped off the field under the worried stares of Patriots fans. The thing they feared most finally happened -- losing the NFL's reigning MVP to injury. And the team they love more than any other plummeted from an exclamation point of an unbeaten 2007 regular season to a huge question mark in 2008 after it held on to beat the Kansas City Chiefs 17-10 Sunday.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:30 PDT

 Favre wins in Jets debut, beats Dolphins (AP)
Brett Favre sank to one knee on the sideline, helplessly watching the Miami Dolphins try to upstage his comeback with one of their own. Six months after Favre began a brief retirement, he made a stirring debut Sunday as Broadway Brett. But in the final minute the Dolphins marched down the field while Favre's New York Jets clung to six-point lead.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:52:57 PDT

 Johnson storms into Chase with RIR win (AP)
Not so fast, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards. Jimmie Johnson has no intention of giving up his title without a fight.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:03:54 PDT

 Upsets put E. Carolina in Top 25 at 14 (AP)
East Carolina can't play the underdog role anymore. After opening the season by upsetting two ranked teams, the Pirates earned themselves a place in the AP Top 25 for the first time in nine years. East Carolina was No. 14 in the media poll released Sunday. Southern California remained No. 1 and Georgia was No.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:39:51 PDT

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Government seizes control of GSEs (Reuters)
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson (L) and Jim Lockhart, Director of the the new independent regulator, the Federal Finanace Agency (FHFA), announce that the government is taking control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during a news conference at the Office of Management Supervision in Washington, DC, September 7, 2008. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. government on Sunday seized control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , in what could be the biggest federal bailout in U.S. history in a bid to support the U.S. housing market and ward off more global financial market turbulence.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:24:49 GMT

 Boeing machinists walk off the job as talks fail (Reuters)
Boeing machinist Rebekah LovellFord pickets in front of the company's Renton, Washington plant September 6, 2008. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)Reuters - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of emergency talks.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:54:17 GMT

 Prosecutor becomes figure in mortgage mess (Reuters)
Reuters - Thomas O'Brien, the U.S. Attorney for California's Central District, is emerging as a likely prosecutor in criminal cases expected from the U.S. mortgage meltdown.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:32:53 GMT

 S&P, Fitch slash Fannie, Freddie preferreds to junk (Reuters)
Reuters - Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings on Sunday cut the ratings on preferred stock of troubled housing finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to junk status after dividends were eliminated in a takeover by the U.S. government.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:21:14 GMT

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Palin agrees to interview (Politico)
Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attends a campaign event in Colorado Springs. A Republican lawmaker is calling for the Democratic head of a probe into Palin to be replaced, accusing him of exploiting the investigation for political ends.(AFP/Robyn Beck)Politico - Under pressure for being shielded for questioning, Sarah Palin has a agreed to sit down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:41:00 GMT

 Obama's stump speech plays to fears, hopes (AP)
In this Aug. 30, 2008 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks to a crowd of supporters during a campaign stop in Dublin, Ohio. As Obama paces the stage with a hand-held microphone it's easy to assume his 30-minute talk is more or less a free-associating string of talking points and applause lines. In fact it's a carefully organized four-part argument, which Obama delivers without notes and with remarkably few glitches or changes from week to week. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)AP - As Barack Obama paces before 15,000 people with a hand-held microphone, it's easy to assume his 30-minute talk is more or less a free-associating string of talking points and applause lines.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:20:31 GMT

 Killer Ike blasts Bahamas, aims at Cuba (AP)
Hurricane Ike blows through the trees just after daybreak on the island of Providenciales, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Ike roared across the low-lying Turks and Caicos island chain before dawn Sunday as people in the British territory sought refuge in emergency shelters or in their homes. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Ike roared across low-lying islands Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying homes, sweeping away boats and bringing more rain to waterlogged communities in Haiti, where at least 48 people died in the floods.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:11:50 GMT

 Bush: Takeover of housing giants 'critical' (AP)
In this May 2, 2007 file photo, the Fannie Mae building in Washington is seen. The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 announced that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - President Bush said Sunday that the historic federal government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is needed to keep them from failing, a risk he called "unacceptable" for an economy battered by housing and credit crises.


Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:32:01 GMT